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The highly-awaited Da Vinci Code will be the opening-night movie at this year's Cannes Film Festival on May 17. The film is currently set for release on May 19, 2006, and will star Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon, Audrey Tautou as Sophie Neveu, and Sir Ian McKellen as Leigh Teabing.

The Da Vinci Code is a novel written by American author Dan Brown and published in 2003. It is a worldwide bestseller with 36 million copies in print (as of August 2005) and has been translated into 44 languages. Sony's Columbia Pictures is adapting the novel to film, with a screenplay written by Akiva Goldsman, and Academy Award winner Ron Howard directing.